It’s a deep hole we have and are digging ourselves into. The mention of not having the pool of qualified welders to do that job echoes what I was reading about a Florida (?) company last week that could not find qualified machinists.

In the opinion of this grumpy old man I feel that a large part of the blame lies with us and the previous generation. In our efforts for our kids to have a better life than we had we somehow instilled in them that there was something wrong with being a blue collar worker.....that somehow being in those jobs was not living up to ones full potential and were paying the price now.

We are hitting the time now that we don’t have the jobs because we don’t the skilled workers, but there is no incentive to gain the skills with no jobs available (and a master welder or machinist is not grown overnight) .